Sentence examples for prices of primary commodities from inspiring English sources

The prices of primary commodities traded in world markets declined even more dramatically during this period.

Expansion driven by fluctuating prices of primary commodities "cannot guarantee sustainable growth in an increasingly open, globalised economy", it says, noting that even those countries that have managed to diversify into low-skill manufactures face increasingly fierce global competition.

Fluctuations in the prices of primary commodities, especially coffee and tea, and the years of civil strife that culminated in the 1994 genocide have had a catastrophic effect on Rwanda's balance of trade.

The Conference noted with concern that in recent years international market prices of primary commodities had sharply declined and had been very unstable and that the climate was, on the whole, very unfavourable for the negotiation of international commodity agreements.

Mirzabaev and Tsegai (2012) examined the impact of adverse weather conditions in Central Asia on wheat and potato price series and found that unfavorable weather conditions lead to higher wheat and potato prices, while the international price spikes of primary commodities negatively affect domestic prices.

The real producer prices of their primary commodities are still a small fraction of the real world market prices.

"The company has locked in the price of one of their primary commodities, wheat, through the end of 2009," says Derrington.

Although the latest United Nations World Economic and Social Survey, released on Thursday, shows a slight slowing of commodity price plunges, it nonetheless concludes: "Among the major categories of nonfuel primary commodities, agricultural prices experienced the sharpest drop in 1999".

Imports of goods to Eastern and Central Europe rose 22.7 percent last year, largely reflecting higher international prices of oil and other primary commodities, while exports rose by 23.1 percent, returning to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2010, according to the World Bank.

As measured in dollars rather than volume, the drop was even greater, 23 percent, to $12.15 trillion, mostly because of falling prices in oil and other primary commodities.

But prices of agricultural commodities are low because of overproduction.